PProfane Existence #33 - SOLD
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PProfane Existence #33 - SOLD
OUT!
"THE TRUE FACE OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER!"
CONTENTS:
Interviews with Students Organized for Animal Rights (SOAR) and the band DYSTOPIA.
Bombshelter crushed in Minneapolis.
Racist, rapist pigs in New York City.
News, Reviews, Editorials, and Letters.
We Don't Cry When Pigs . . . (Revisited)
August 1997... another hot summer in the filled with punk rock shows, touring bands, and the usual harassment by the anti-fun brigade a.k.a. the police. In Minneapolis, this summer's bullshit went beyond the usual "mild" intimidation, harassment, and petty arrests of punks and other "freaks." Here as in most cities around the world, the police have instituted their own brand of "street justice" against what they see as undesirable elements of society. As punks we face repression not only because of our political views, but the fact that we are young people, who traditionally, economically, and socially, occupy a lower rung on the social ladder.
However, we are not alone facing this repression. Ethnic minorities, immigrants, Queers, and women face daily harassment, imprisonment. This issue of Profane Existence has extensive coverage covers the recent police attacks against punks in the Twin Cities and in Quebec. As well we have reprinted an article on the vicious beating and gang-rape of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by New York City cops. Each case is a reminder that the police on our streets are out of control and enforce their will with the viciousness of rabid dogs. Just one week ago Minneapolis cops (and heros of the Bombshelter riot) Lawrence Loonsfoot and Charlie Storlie shot and seriously wounded a Black Minneapolis youth who was playing with a pellet gun in his yard. The cops claim the boy raised the pistol at the at them but neighbors and family say otherwise. Another sad incident to fuel an already volatile atmosphere in our city. Young people, minorities, women, and Queers-those who feel the jack boot on a daily basis-already know that the cops are only here to protect and (pre)serve the empire of big business and government. We know we are not alone when we proclaim: "We don't cry when pigs die!" See you in the KKKamps!